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  • american_tourister
  • By american_tourister on January 27, 2005
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  • Man and Boy - Iraq
    Man and Boy
    by american_tourister
    Folks think I am a warmonger, a killer, and that I hate Iraqis. It could not be further from the truth. They are very nice people and are very family oriented. I like them.

    There are some bad men out there doing great harm in the name of the Iraqi people but they sure as hell don't represent this man and his little boy. They just want a safe place to live.

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    Shock and Awe!
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  • Updated By american_tourister on December 7, 2004
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  • Another of my self portraits - Iraq
    Another of my self portraits
    by american_tourister
    The USAF kicked butt early on. They took out a lot of strategic spots in a lightning, surgical campaign that was designed to destroy the will to resist.

    There has been a lot of second guessing about the strategy since May of '04 but there is still no doubt that the bombing campaign did exactly what it was designed to do.

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  • Directions: All around Iraq but Baghdad in particular
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    Going to Iraq.... You are...
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  • OMR
  • By OMR on September 12, 2002
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  • Going to Iraq....
    You are discovering 7000 years of history, the magic of the east, the glories of the ancient history…
    Babylon, Akad, Ashoor, Baghdad, Najaf, Mousel, Basrah and a lot of great places you have to visit…
    Babylon city, it is the earliest civilization in the world, it is the mystery of 7000 years.
    Baghdad, the nice warm city, the hot city with it’s people and it’s weather…
    Ninva , the Assyrians great city…
    Najaf, Karbal and Basrah…
    Irbil and Sulaimanyah…

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  • Directions: Bagdad, babylon, Najaf and Karbal are in the middle of Iraq. Mousel, Irbil and Suliamanyah are to the north.. Basrah is to the south
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    Destroyed Iraqi Armor
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  • By american_tourister on January 27, 2005
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  • OOOPPPSSS!!!!!! - Iraq
    OOOPPPSSS!!!!!!
    by american_tourister
    The USAF and the Army whalloped Saddam's vaunted Republican Guard. There is detoryed armor still littering the countryside. This photo was taken at 75 MPH on Highway 1 North of Baghdad back in May 2004.

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    Day excursion from Baghdad
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  • By jorgejuansanchez on April 1, 2006
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  • Original mosque - Iraq
    Original mosque
    by jorgejuansanchez
    A place that you should not miss while in Baghdad is the amazing mosque of Samarra (see picture), like a zigurat

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  • Address: Take a taxi. Everybody knows where it is located
  • Directions: 1 hour driving
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    Go To A Foreign Weapons Range
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  • EGerard
  • By EGerard on July 12, 2009
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  • I'm In The Back - Iraq
    I'm In The Back
    by EGerard, 1 more photos
    I helped train some US SF guy's on M915 driving, so they helped me out by letting me have some fun out at the range. I took a squad of my Soldier's out, and we shot 12 gauge shotguns, automatic 9mm MP5's, captured Iraqi AK-47's, captured Iraqi 9mm's, and then we played with some C4. All in all, a pretty entertaining day.

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    Hanging Out With My Chaps
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  • By EGerard on July 15, 2009
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  • Tenting Up - Iraq
    Tenting Up
    by EGerard, 2 more photos
    These are actually pictures of my Soldiers in a variety of places, from Kuwait to Al Asad to Tikrit, Balad, Baghdad, a bunch of other places.

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    Spiral Tower of Samarra
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  • Updated By marimar_72 on November 25, 2005
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  • Samarra is believed to be a short for(surra man raa)an Arabic phrase which means (pleasent to look at).The tower is called (Al Manarah Al Malwiyah).from the 9th century.
    The spiral ramp seems to be inspired from the Tower of Babylon .
    The 17th-century mosque with its golden dome is sacred to Shia Muslims.

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  • Address: N central Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is on the
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    this was our program:...
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  • Updated By fabrice on February 25, 2008
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  • this was our program: ctesiphon.

    babylone(we slept in al-hillah):very disapointing because they rebuilt a remake of the ancient city,so you visit a 'new' old city.

    ur(where abraham is supposed to be born)the temperature was 45°C,and we saw soldiers running and training for war under the sun.We ate in a little restaurant in samawa,if I remember well,in this little city,the main bridge was destroyed by a missile during the gulf war(300 victims).

    mossoul in the north where we visited churches and monasteries,also very near the site of ninive.

    hatra in the desert,a place where there is no sound,nothing but an archeological site in the middle of the desert(incredible place)

    it was very strange to see the baptism of a baby in a monastery near mossoul,these people have really a hard life.

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    see all the archeological...
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  • fabrice
  • By fabrice on August 25, 2002
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  • Iraq Things To Do
    by fabrice
    see all the archeological places,there are plenty in iraq,such as babylone,ur,hatra,ninive,assur,ctesiphon;

    go also to the shiite cities,kerbala,an-nadjaf,with a strange atmosphere,you will feel that you are in iran;
    in the north,mossoul and the area is plenty of churches and christian communities

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